Meta-Feature Request: a way to get feedback on patches for DMD/Phobos

[BCS]

Reply to Downs,

> I have repeatedly found myself in the situation that I had a patch for
> some aspect of Phobos, but no "official" way to request inclusion in
> the Phobos mainline except for posting it somewhere and hoping
> somebody would eventually pay attention to it and give me some
> feedback along the lines of "Yes", "No", "No for this and that
> reason", "Yes if you change this part", etc.
> 
> As I'm sure many of you are aware, this approach has not met with
> overwhelming success in the past. :)
> 
> Because of this, I'd like to request the creation of an outline, a
> series of steps and best practices to follow when creating a patch for
> Phobos/DMD, as well as some sort of quick feedback mechanism.
> 
> By this I don't mean that a decision has to be made within 24h after
> posting my request, just _some_ kind of reaction along the lines of
> "Yes I have seen your post, and will take this in consideration
> eventually. Except some response within four weeks or so." (yeah, I'm
> optimistic)
> 
> What do you think?
> --downs
> PS: By the way, is there any way to query dsource for the list of
> people that have commit access to some project? Might be a useful
> addition :)
> 

I have dumped patche on the bugzilla.